Veil of isis, the: an essay on the history of the idea of nature
Auteur :
Hadot, Pierre
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674030497
Date de publication :
1 sept. 2008
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.†How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,†has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot.